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[2011/07/09 16:06] Gracie Kendal: WE ARE SO HAPPY YOU HAVE JOINED US AND VALUE YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT THIS INSTALLATION… WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTEMPLATE WHAT YOU SEE AND SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS!!! tHANK YOU FOR BEING HERE

[2011/07/09 16:06] Paula Galewind: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY

[2011/07/09 16:06] Molly Vinciolo: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY

[2011/07/09 16:06] Tina Reverie: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY

[2011/07/09 16:06] Gracie Kendal: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY??

[2011/07/09 16:06] Sophie Allegiere: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY?

[2011/07/09 16:06] Kris Schomaker: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY

[2011/07/09 16:06] sunflower Aichi: hello Gracie

[2011/07/09 16:06] Frida Latzo: Where is my beauty?

[2011/07/09 16:06] Kristine Garnet: Where is my beauty?

[2011/07/09 16:06] Madilyn Dezno: Where is Beauty?

[2011/07/09 16:06] Paige Adagio: Where is my Beauty?

[2011/07/09 16:06] Lila Rhiadra: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY?

[2011/07/09 16:07] Zoe Pegasi: Where is my beauty?

[2011/07/09 16:07] Ann Ehret: Where is my beauty?

[2011/07/09 16:07] Elizabeth Lacourte: Where… is my beauty?

[2011/07/09 16:07] SaveMe Oh: Here!

[2011/07/09 16:07] Maggie Dezno: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY?

[2011/07/09 16:07] Zoe Pegasi: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY?

[2011/07/09 16:07] Elizabeth Lacourte: Where is my beauty….

[2011/07/09 16:07] Kikas Babenco: why not me?

[2011/07/09 16:07] SaveMe Oh: you smell

[2011/07/09 16:07] Elizabeth Lacourte: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY?

[2011/07/09 16:07] Kikas Babenco: why not everyone?

[2011/07/09 16:07] Lila Rhiadra: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY?

[2011/07/09 16:08] SaveMe Oh: I am here

[2011/07/09 16:08] Ammelia Eichel: is it only skin deep is the question?

[2011/07/09 16:08] Elizabeth Lacourte: where is MY BEAUTY

[2011/07/09 16:08] Molly Vinciolo: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY

[2011/07/09 16:08] Paige Adagio: Where is my BEAUTY?

[2011/07/09 16:08] Kris Schomaker: where, is my….. BEAUTY!

[2011/07/09 16:08] Kikas Babenco: inside everyone is beauty

[2011/07/09 16:08] SaveMe Oh: here

[2011/07/09 16:08] Paula Galewind: WHERE IS MY BEAUTY

[2011/07/09 16:08] SaveMe Oh: and not only beauty, but a natural beauty I would say

[2011/07/09 16:24] Ammelia Eichel: I sometimes wonder when I see very very large (VERY LARGE) breasts here or very obese Avis if people are making statements or copying their RL or just being perverse.

[2011/07/09 16:24] Elizabeth Lacourte: Where is my beauty?

[2011/07/09 16:24] Zola Zsun is Offline

[2011/07/09 16:24] Ammelia Eichel: Hey, I think some of the are saying it in VOICe …. cool !!

[17:04] Maggie Dezno: Hi, we are silent during the perfromance…but wanted to mention..the reasonno males..is because all the alts here are variations of Gracie…

[17:05] Kikas Babenco: thank you!

[17:05] Maggie Dezno: It had to do with her reconciling her real life body image with her SL one

[17:06] Maggie Dezno: the search for beauty when one is unhappy with your own body image is a journey..Gracie has let us into her mind doing this

[17:06] Kikas Babenco: yes I’ve bee following her performaces and her texts

[17:06] Maggie Dezno: nods

[17:06] Maggie Dezno: 🙂

[17:06] Kikas Babenco: but sometimes beauty alone is so empty

[17:08] Maggie Dezno: yes..I agree that variation makes beauty more “real”…but Gracies point I belive is regardless of outside beauty..there is alsways something beautiful…could be talent, inner strength or a wonderful marvelous ugliness of some sort…sometimes ugly can be beautiful to someone else

[17:08] Kikas Babenco: exactly

[2011/07/09 17:13] Ammelia Eichel: I had a friend who was a guy who used to sit in HoV with his female alt sitting in his lap

ARTIST GRACIE KENDAL AND THE VANEEESA BLAYLOCK COMPANY EXPLORE A WOMAN’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HER AVATAR

the human body has been represented in painting and sculpture for 500 years

but always mediated by the artist’s hand

so we present the body (avatar) as a work of sculpture / installatIon

directly to the audience…

and in a world where avatars are emerging as new citizens, we state “I Rez Therefore I Am”

that presenting the avatar is a work of sculpture, and a declaration of instantiaiton / identity…

in Gracie’s journey she explores the “realism” of her physical persona

and the “romanticism” of her virtual self-identity…

and in VB15 we present the multiplicity of those identities

as a moment of Temporal / Spatial conflux

where they all manifest as a major sculptural presence for the audience

and their own multiple identites and life personas to consider…

~Vaneeesa Blaylock

In VB15 on July 9th 2011, Gracie will offer 16 avatars, 16 variations of identity, 16 life possibilities, for the audience to consider in this performance where the body is presented directly before the audience, unmediated by the brush of the painter or the lens of the photographer.

Gracie Kendal, also known as Kristine Schomaker in real life, just completed her Thesis for the Masters Degree in Art with the execution of her “My Life as an Avatar” http://www.graciekendal.wordpress.com where she utilizes installation, text, photography, mixed media, video and performance to explore her real life through the lens of her second life avatar.

“I am projecting myself onto another form and confronting my own imperfections,” Kendal says. “My work deals with the process of becoming self-aware while living in a media-saturated, technologically advancing society.”

“The human body has been represented in painting and sculpture for 500 years, but always mediated by the artist’s hand,” Company Director Vaneeesa Blaylock said. “In a world where avatars are emerging as new citizens, we will present the avatar as a work of sculpture directly to the audience. We state ‘I Rez, Therefore I Am.'”

In the past year Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company has produced numerous performance artworks in Second Life, including 14 large-scale productions, 3 duets, and 11 solo works. Ms. Blaylock holds an MFA in New Media from the Koninklijk Conservatorium and a degree in Choreography from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Gracie Kendal, also know as Kristine Schomaker, is a Los Angeles based new media and performance artist, painter and art historian. She received her BA in Art History and her MA in Studio Art from California State University at Northridge. For over 12 years, she has been experimenting with various interdisciplinary art forms including using online virtual worlds and social networking technologies to connect with international audiences and local arts communities. Gracie’s current work explores notions of online identity, specifically the construction of Avatars. Her work as a whole stands as an allegory of the relationship between appearance and identity, illusion, belief and reality. Two projects she is presently working on include, “My Life as an Avatar: The Gracie Kendal project” and “1000 Avatars” a contemporary anthropology of portraits of avatars in the virtual world of Second Life.

VB15 – GRACIE / KRIS_

by Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company

is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Netherlands License.